SPRING BREAK!!!

This is our first official Spring Break!! Boy are the kids and I excited about a week off to just be together!! In Missouri, Spring break consisted of good friday and easter monday. Here in oklahoma, it is an entire week!!
we spent our first official day split up. that wasn't a bad thing, though. Chris and Nathaniel went to Tulsa with Clay and Max to do a guys day out/Dad's and sons thing. Hannah and I hung out here and then headed out late morning to Great-grandma Crosswhites. She was going to be home alone today and we hadn't seen her since Christmas, so Hannah loaded up some puzzles, books, crayons, and horses and we took lunch up to her. It was a fun day! We played and visited and just spent good time with her. We came home to find Chris super sick, so I took the kids out so Chris could sleep and we got some supper and went to Walmart and Target to price leapsters, which is like a learning gameboy. they have been asking for something to do on road trips, like a nintendo ds. We looked at them, but for the price of one ds, we could get 2 leapsters, plus, the nintendo doesn't really have any learning games. If you know me very well, you know I hate game systems and am not fond of my kids wasting their time on them, but we do have a gamecube. they just have time limits here. Anyways, I didn't want them getting something that would melt their brains, but something that would challenge them instead. They were really interested in the leapsters, as it seems that they can use these until they are 4th or 5th graders. math, reading, and even science. Nathan got a game that will teach him about the different forms of matter (liquid, gas and solid). he was excited because we had been talking about God and how he is like water. He is water, ice and steam. So he is really game to try out this new thing. We are getting these thanks to Chris' annual bonus, that he actually got this year. Last year he got ripped. He is hoping to fix up the laptop, as it has some issues.
Lets see, what else. I am on here as I am up making sure Chris is ok and finishing up some laundry as the kids and I head out to Mom and Dad's tomorrow. We are going to spend the night with them and then head to St. Joe to see Brett, Amy, Abram and Sophie; as well as hit Coleman for recess time. We are going to spend the night with Brett and Amy and then see who else we might be able to catch up with before heading back to Mom and Dad's to see Grandma.
We would like to be back here by the middle of the week, so we can spend some time with Chris and there is some stuff here i would really like to get caught up on before school is back up.

Speakng of school, our March party was so much fun. Michele made special brownies for everyone and we all sang and ate those. I had made, with the help of TJ, a photo book for Laci. She really liked it, so I was so glad we had made it. Since most of the kids don't color and some of them don't speak, TJ and I took pictures of all the kids and then we wrote on each page, "happy birthday" from whoever the kid was. She really liked it, so we were thrilled! hard to believe that when we get back it will almost be april. seems so wrong. I am excited, though. The end of march is my birthday and i will be the big 3-0. I think the family and I are just going to hang out here. The following weekend we are headed to Dallas to stay in a hotel and go to the Nascar race. I think that will be fun. Nathaniel is so pumped and we are going to go to the zoo or somethiing the day before. That will be so much fun, that i am treating that like it is a b-day gift. never really hung out in dallas before. Chris is really excited because they have Chipolte there, so that is one lunch stop:-)
Well, I need to get to the dryer. it just stopped, so I need to check to see if everything is dry so I can finish putting stuff in the suitcase. hope everyone enjoys the first week of spring, and i will do my best to post pictures when we get back from our trip!!
Till then, all our love!!